Guardian: Welcome to the world, olinguito, the first new carnivore to be discovered in the western hemisphere for 35 years. I just hope this isn’t going to be a brief acquaintance. Sadly, given our track record, you might do well to beware Homo sapiens bearing binomials (in this case, Bassaricyon neblina, the latter being Spanish for “fog”). Once they’ve got you named, it can be a brief window between identification and disappearance, as 20th-century discoveries such as the okapi (1901) and the coelacanth…

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